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SPOUT CAP FOR JARS OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATIONHLED JUNE 5, 915- Patent-ed Sept. 26, 1916.

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CHARLES STRAUSS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR 'I' O HIMSELF, ADOLPH ULLMAN, AND LOUIS C. STRAUSS, ALL OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Y SPOUT-CAP FOR JARS OR THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.,

Application filed June 5, 1915. Serial No. 82,439.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES STRAUSS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementvi-n Spout-Caps for Jars or the like, of which the following is a-specification.

This invention relates to spout-caps for use on jars or the like adapted to contain sugaror other similar granular matter for 1 table and other service, and the objectof the invention is to provide a cap that has a spout capable of delivering the said sugar or other contents of the jar in measured form so that the user can deliver or discharge the desired quantity of sugar or other contents of the jar to the surface of or into the foods requiringthe seasoning.

The invention is quite simple in structure, economically made, readily applied to the lid or cap of the vessel or jar and readily cleaned, as well as kept clean from a sanitary point of view. Besides, the device being intended for use in measuring the contents of the vessel, accuracy without waste is assured, and the user knows just what seasoning he is putting in his food which was not possible in the use of the plain form of spout without a regulating device such as has hitherto been provided on the caps or lids of said jars or vessels. The details of structure will be fully hereinafter described and then more particularly set out in the claim.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention here in,-Figure 1 is a central sectional elevation of the jar or vessel having my improved measuringcap thereon; Fig. 2, a

.side ele'vation of the jar showing it as it appears in use, with my improved cap or lid thereon and with the measuring-device shown in dotted-lines; Fi 3, a front-elevation of the lid or cap with my improved measuring-device and spout applied thereto; but omitting the jar; Fig. 4, a plan view of the lid or cap of the jar to which my invention is applied, and Fig. 5, a detail section of the measuring chamber or cup taken on the dotted line a, a, of Fig. 1. 7

1 indicates an ordinary glass jar or receptacle adapted to hold sugar or other seasoning material for use in connection with foods, especially in table service. This jar has a screw-threaded top or rim 2 with a large opening or mouth suflicient to accommodate the improved measuring device therein.

3 indicates a metallic lid or cap that has screw-threaded connection with the screwthreaded top or flange of the jar 1 in the ordinary way common to this type of jars or receptacles.

4 indicates the delivery-spout projecting from the upper outer face of the lid or cap 3, near the edge thereof and having a flapper-lid 5 that is hinged at 6 to the upper edge ofthe mouth of the spout, such edge being tapered downwardly toward the edge of the cap. The object of tapering the upper edge of the spout is to facilitate the closing of the hinged lid by gravitating thereon, whereby foreign matter and insects are excluded from within the vessel.

7 indicates the inner end of the spout that extends vertically and downwardly from the cap into the fore ends of a pair of side-walls 8, 8 of a measuring chamber or cup that has an inclined rear-wall 9, the lower end of which latter wall terminates near the bottom of the inner-extension 7 of the spout. The lower end of the inner-extension of the spout has a removable tight-fitting cap 10, whereby the lower end of the measuringchamber is closed for use but, at the same time is adapted to be opened for the passage of the cleaning-implement necessary in keeping the chamber in a sanitary condition and aflording ready access to the chamberfrom its said lower end. The upper edges of the side-walls 8, 8 are secured to the inner face of the jar-cap by means of narrow clips or tongue-extensions that extend through slits made in the jar-cap and are upset or turned over, as shown at 11, to seinvert the vessel charged on or in the from the inner face of the cup 3, as best shown in Fig. l, a notch or opening 12 be ing provided in each of the side-walls 8, 8, to allow the contents of the vessel to freely enter the measuring chamber or cup when the jar is first tilted and then restored to normal position.

In using the device, it is necessary to first so that its contents shall flow into the upper capped-part of the jar or vessel so that when the jar is returned to normal upright-position a quantity of the contents will remain in the measuring chamher or cup, as shown at to in several levels in Fig. 1, such quantity representing a teaspoonful or more to suit the standard predetermined quantity that is to be then disiood, as the case may be, when the jar is again tilted forwardly, with the outer end of the spout in direct downward line of discharge, the quantity or amount discharged being that which was left in said measuring-chamber when the vessel was returned to normal upright-position, and no more of the contents can be discharged until the said full tilting operation of the vessel is repeated or duplicated. In the cross-section shown in Fig. 1, and in dotted-lines in Fig. 3, it will be seen that at the lower end of the spout-extension a lateral or elongated side opening 13 is provided for the outward-passage of the contents of the measuring chamber or cup when the measured-discharge thereof is to be eliected through the spout into the food to be seasoned.

It is obvious that other means of fastening the measuring chamber or cup in the jar or vessel cap may be afforded without resorting to that shown in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the mentor clip or tongue form shown in the drawings might be slightly of the overturned outer ends on the lid or cap being somewhat unsightly and, also, liable to obstruct the use of the cleaning and polishing cloths. It is further 0bvious that the measuring chamber or cup can be applied within the dome or top of an oilcan or the like to deliver the contents in measured quantities, whereby store and house service can be facilitated with accuracy and without waste and, also, without the use of separate measuring cups or scales that are not always convenient and subject to be mislaid, as well as occupying extra space.

I claim A spout-cap for jars or the like comprising a cap or lid, an outwardly-extending spout near the edge of said cap and having its upper edge inclined downwardly toward said edge of the cap, a gravitating-lid hinged objectionable on account to the upper edge of said spout, an inward and downward extension of said spout adapted to be inclosed within the upper part of the jar and having its lower end open, a cap removably-held on said lower open end of the downward spout-extension, and a pair of side-walls extending laterally from said downward spout-extension and having a rear connecting-wall, said downward the face of spout-extension being open at its side in the lower part of the chamber formed by said side and rear walls whereby a measuring chamber or cup is provided for the delivery of the contents of the in predetermined quantities.

CHARLES STRAUSS.

Witnesses Jenn ELIAS Jones, Bnnr B. Brenon, 

